Senior Security Operations Analyst

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Salary - £54,000 - £65,000 + bonus

Location - Manchester or Leeds - Hybrid

We're working with a well-established, award-winning UK fintech. They're looking for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to sit at the heart of their Information Security function, owning threat detection and incident response at real scale.

The opportunity

SIEM - write and tune detection rules, investigate alerts end-to-end, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps and an outsourced SOC.

Threat intelligence & hunting - monitor intelligence from multiple sources, identify trends and emerging threats, and lead coordinated hunting activity.

Incident response - analyse, contain, and remediate security incidents, communicating clearly across teams and escalating where needed.

EDR - day-to-day interaction with the Endpoint Detection and Response tooling across the estate.

Policy & control design - contribute to security policy, standards, and documentation, and design and test logical security controls.

Essential skills and experience

Hands-on SIEM experience - Chronicle, Splunk, or Sentinel

Strong understanding of firewalls, IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs

Knowledge of cloud and traditional infrastructure security principles

Ability to proactively identify control weaknesses and vulnerabilities

Clear communicator - able to translate technical risk into plain business language

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